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End Games in Bordeaux

By Allan Massie

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9780704373761 | Gardners Books, May 1, 2015, cover price $20.40

Klaus

Product Description: Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life. It unlocks his relationship with both his father and his former lover, Gustaf, who was a communist before collaborating with the Nazi regime and becoming one of its most celebrated actors...read more

By Allan Massie

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9781908251282 | Reprint edition (Vagabound Voices Pub Ltd, August 15, 2014), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life.

Cold Winter in Bordeaux

Product Description: Winter. 1942-3. The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes - himself an object of suspicion, with one son in Vichy and another with de Gaulle's Free French - investigates the murder of a woman...read more

By Allan Massie

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9780704373280 | Quartet Books Ltd, June 16, 2014, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Winter.

Surviving

By Allan Massie

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9781908251114 | Dufour Editions, March 15, 2013, cover price $21.95

9780956056023 | Dufour Editions, December 15, 2009, cover price $19.95

The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain

By Allan Massie

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Hardcover:

9780312581756 | Thomas Dunne Books, December 20, 2011, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9781250024923 | Reprint edition (Griffin, February 5, 2013), cover price $17.99

Klaus and Other Stories

Product Description: Klaus, the novella that opens and, to some extent, dominates this collection, tells the story of Klaus Mann, son of Thomas, and in spite of the long shadow of so famous a father, an important novelist and political activist in his own right...read more

By Allan Massie

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9780956056061 | Dufour Editions, December 15, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Klaus, the novella that opens and, to some extent, dominates this collection, tells the story of Klaus Mann, son of Thomas, and in spite of the long shadow of so famous a father, an important novelist and political activist in his own right.

Charlemagne and Roland

Product Description: A truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) he became the renewer of the Western Empire, which had expired in the 5th century...read more

By Allan Massie

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9780753822326 | Phoenix, January 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too.

Witch Wood

Product Description: Buchan's favorite of all his novels, Witch Wood deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance...read more

By Allan Massie (introduced by)

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9781846970719 | Birlinn Ltd, August 1, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Buchan's favorite of all his novels, Witch Wood deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability.

Charlemagne and Roland: A Romance

Third in Allan Massie's celebrated series that began with THE EVENING OF THE WORLD and continued with ARTHUR THE KING

By Allan Massie

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9780297850694 | Orion Pub Co, July 12, 2007, cover price $23.05 | About this edition: Third in Allan Massie's celebrated series that began with THE EVENING OF THE WORLD and continued with ARTHUR THE KING

The Thistle and the Rose: Six Centuries of Love And Hate Between the Scots And the English

Product Description: In an elegant narrative that ranges over 600 years, Allan Massie lays bare the powerful and turbulent relationship between the Scots and the English.

By Allan Massie

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9780719565960 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In an elegant narrative that ranges over 600 years, Allan Massie lays bare the powerful and turbulent relationship between the Scots and the English.

Arthur The King

The historical novelist turns his attention to the Authurian legends, constructing a historically astute reading of King Authur's life that focuses on the details of life in the wake of the chaotic collapse of the Roman Empire.

By Allan Massie

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9780786713844 | Carroll & Graf Pub, November 11, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The historical novelist turns his attention to the Authurian legends, constructing a historically astute reading of King Authur's life that focuses on the details of life in the wake of the chaotic collapse of the Roman Empire.

The Death of Men

Corrado Dusa is head of Italy's Christian Democrat Party and the country's senior minister. He is also considered to be the key figure in resolving the crisis of dissent and violence that permeates political life. But Dusa has been kidnapped and now his son, a member of a militant extremist group, has disappeared.

By Allan Massie

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9781841955049 | Canongate Books Ltd, September 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Corrado Dusa is head of Italy's Christian Democrat Party and the country's senior minister.

Arthur the King: A Romance

It is the aftermath of the Roman occupation of Britain. Kings are now jockeying for position, for title, for land and for power. A young boy confounds the most famous knights of the realm when he pulls a jewelled sword from a cleft in a stone and claims the throne left vacant by the death of Uther Pendragon.

By Allan Massie

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9780297816782 | Orion Pub Co, September 11, 2003, cover price $29.85 | About this edition: This is the story of King Arthur, imagined by a novelist.

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9780753817810 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 1, 2004), cover price $12.25 | About this edition: It is the aftermath of the Roman occupation of Britain.

A Question of Loyalties

Etienne de Balafre, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his father - Lucien. Was he a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?

By Allan Massie

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9780136826248, titled "Postscript Illustrations" | Prentice Hall, May 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | also contains Postscript Illustrations | About this edition: This instruction book for designers, illustrators and desktop publishers using PostScript graphics programs on personal computers offers chapters written by computer illustrators who demonstrate the electronic art-making process and the logical and creative thinking that lies behind successful pictures.

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9781841952994 | New edition (Canongate Books Ltd, November 8, 2002), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Etienne de Balafre, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his father - Lucien.

The Evening of the World: A Romance of the Dark Ages

By Allan Massie

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9780753813102 | Orion Pub Co, June 1, 2002, cover price $13.99

The Evening of the World

By Allan Massie

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9780297816973 | Orion Pub Co, January 1, 1999, cover price $22.95

Shadows of Empire

By Allan Massie and Bill Wallis (narrator)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754001577 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, August 1, 1998), cover price $84.95

King David

David, King of Israel now in old age, looks back to his charmed youth and his attempt to build a national monarchy under the favour of God. But as he accumulates power, he is killing his ability to inspire love.

By Allan Massie

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9780340659908 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, June 20, 1996), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: David, King of Israel now in old age, looks back to his charmed youth and his attempt to build a national monarchy under the favour of God.

Augustus

The first in an acclaimed series of historical novels--including Tiberius and Caesar--reconstructs the lost memoirs of Augustus, recounting the life of the founder of the Roman Empire in his own frank, forceful style. Reprint. PW.

By Allan Massie

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9780786702671 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Blending history and fiction, the author presents the memoirs of Emperor Augustus and reveals a complex leader capable of great cruelty and deceit, but also possessing forbearance and humanity

Caesar

Retelling the story of Caesar in a glamorous, sexually charged light, the third of the author's Roman novels depicts the downfall of a charismatic showman desperate for power and brings to life Cleopatra, Cicero, Brutus, and Anthony.

By Allan Massie

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9780786701216 | Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Retells the story of Caesar in a glamorous, sexually charged light, depicting the downfall of a charismatic showman desperate for power

These Enchanted Woods: A Comedy of Morals

By Allan Massie

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9780091774110 | Hutchinson, June 1, 1994, cover price $24.95

Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor

Presenting a rich study of the ancient Roman world, a fictional autobiography of Emperor Tiberius offers an enlightening view of a proud, dutiful, and brooding man and his family, including Augustus Caesar, Caligula, and Nero.

By Allan Massie

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9780786700073 | Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A fictional autobiography of Emperor Tiberius offers a view of a proud, dutiful, and brooding man and his family, including Augustus Caesar, Caligula, and Nero

The Sins of the Father

Fran and Becky, two children of European parents growing up in Buenos Aires after World War II, must face the complex and destructive heritage of the Holocaust and understand the meaning of guilt and loyalty.

By Allan Massie

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9780881848496 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Fran and Becky, two children of European parents growing up in Buenos Aires after World War II, must face the complex and destructive heritage of the Holocaust and understand the meaning of guilt and loyalty

Tiberius

The second of a trilogy of 'Roman' novels. 'Augustus' is the first book in the trilogy and was the winner of the Saltire Society/Scotsman Book of the Year Award. The author also wrote 'The Last Peacock', which won the Frederick Niven Award in 1981, 'The Death of Men' and 'A Question of Loyalties'.

By Allan Massie

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9780340560051 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, January 2, 1992), cover price $11.75 | About this edition: The second of a trilogy of 'Roman' novels.

The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel, 1970-1989

By Allan Massie

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9780582004078 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1990, cover price $23.75

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